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I’ve tried to highlight certain assumptions: (1) the Church is made up of people; (2)that the Church could only come about after certain historical requirements were in place; and (3) that the Church’s leadership is divine (in other words: God is the church’s leader). Following those assumptions (and an unmentioned fourth) I progressed to highlighting the Goal of the Church summed up in glorifying God by glorifying Christ. Such a broad definition leaves the most vague of us floating helplessly through a foamy sky of ambiguous vapor. Therefore, I want to spend some time looking at how that purpose is evidenced by the overarching Work of the Church.
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Technorati Tags: New Testament, redemptive history, the gospel, the holy spirit
Tags: New Testament, redemptive history, the gospel, the holy spirit
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I say the stupidest things. I realize that every time I think I?m saying the right thing and suddenly note the recipient?s reaction. Sometimes I don?t finish what I?m saying automatically assuming the person gets where I?m heading. Other times I don?t bother saying things because I feel it?s so obvious that it shouldn?t need verbal stating (how dumb).
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Technorati Tags: christ, worship
Tags: christ, worship
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Steve Hulshizer
What comes to mind when we think of the word holy? Dictionaries
have great difficulty attempting to define it. Usually it is associated with divinity, but
never really defined. Of course the religious world makes great use of the word, but as
with many Biblical words they are but part of their jargon and empty ritual.
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30 September
Posted by milkandhoney
by Bob Gessner
In these last days we see so many evidences of the natural man and so few of the spiritual
man It is likely in our generation that the marks of a spiritual man are not clearly
understood. Let us examine a few general characteristics and then take a closer look at
some specific marks of a spiritual man.
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